- After you quit smoking, your body will start benefiting within 20 minutes. Your blood pressure and pulse rate will decrease. The body temperature of your feet and hands will start to increase and work on getting back to normal.
- After about 8 hours the Carbon Monoxide level in your blood will drop by 50% and it will keep steadily decreasing until it returns to normal. The Carbon Monoxide in your blood has been reducing your body's ability to carry and transport Oxygen, which is vital for your body to function as it should.
- Your risk of succumbing to a heart attack is reduced within 24 hours of the last cigarette you smoked.
- Your nerve endings will start to regrow within 48 hours. Your ability to taste and smell will be enhanced. All the nicotine in your body is gone now.
- Within 72 hours your bronchial tubes are no longer stressed and they will relax. Your energy levels will start increasing.
- In 2 weeks your circulation will improve. You will find that you are wheezing and coughing much less. The phlegm you have been coughing up has decreased. Walking is much easier now. Your circulation will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
- In the next 3 to 9 months, your lung capacity will increase by 10%. Shortness of breath, sinus congestion, coughing, wheezing, phlegm production, fatigue, and breathing problems will continue to dissipate.The Cilia within your lungs, which remove mucus and toxins, regain normal function.
- After 1 year your risk of having a heart attack or developing coronary heart disease has reduced by 50%.
- After 5 years, your risk of having a stroke will return to that of a non-smoker.
- After 10 years, your risk of getting cancer of the lungs, mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidneys, and pancreas decreases. Your risk of ulcers also decreases.
- After 15 years, your risk of heart attack and coronary heart disease becomes similar to that of non-smokers. Your death risk returns to nearly the level of a non-smoker.
*Your risks will always remain higher than that of non-smokers, but quitting smoking
SIGNIFICANTLY reduces your chances of succumbing to any one of the problems tobacco use leads to. I will repeat that one....
Quitting Smoking SIGNIFICANTLY Reduces Your Risks!!!